Oliver Gilmour

Wit and brio

Thomas Beecham: An Obsession with Music, by John Lucas<br /> <br type="_moz" />

issue 01 November 2008

Thomas Beecham: An Obsession with Music, by John Lucas

Damn awful thing, what! [The Ring] — Barbarian load of Nazi thugs, aren’t they?

‘No one can honestly maintain that the lives of musicians make exciting reading’, claimed Beecham in his autobiography, A Mingled Chime. If you were to have a wager, you would put it on Tommy Beecham to defy the odds.

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